Transactions of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society, Volume 8Oliver and Boyd, 1883 With vol. 26: Laws of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society. 1901. |
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1st stage 2nd stage abdominal adherent adhesions albumen albuminuria attack axis-traction forceps basilyst birth bladder blades bleeding blood carbolic cause cavity centimetres cervix child compression condition cord curve death delivery diagnosis dilated discharge disease distended Dr James Edinburgh elongated examination exophthalmic extra-uterine gestation felt finger fixation screw flexion foetal foetus forceps fundus gestation sac Gynækologie hæmorrhage handles head inches instrument intestine labour laceration left side lock Maternity Midwifery months mucous membrane multiparæ muscle normal observed Obstetrical Society obstinate vomiting occurred operation ophthalmia ophthalmia neonatorum ovarian ovaries ovum pains parturition patient pedicle pelvic floor pelvis perineum peritoneum peritonitis placenta position post-partum pouch of Douglas pregnancy present President pressure primiparæ Professor puerperium recognised rectum removed right side rods round rupture RUSSELL SIMPSON showed sickness slight superinvolution symptoms Tarnier tion tissue traction traction-rods transverse tube tumour upper urine uterine uterus vertex vulva woman
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Page 88 - MD, Professor of Midwifery and the Diseases of Women and Children in the University of Pennsylvania, &c.
Page 145 - ... child. Let who will continue to use ordinary curved forceps, an obstetrician who has used the Tarnier forceps in a few test cases will no more think of reverting to the other than a man who can afford to keep a carriage will continue to practise as a peripatetic. He may use the defective instrument occasionally to keep muscle and mind in exercise, or because the case is so easy that it can...
Page 11 - Duse, who practises Midwifery at Paris, and who believes it to be his own Invention, would not be unacceptable to you, and the Publication of a Picture of it may be of use to some of your readers.
Page 100 - Ovarian tumours are liable to a variety of accidents such as rupture, either from injury or spontaneously, and twisting of the pedicle ; to morbid processes, such as inflammation, atheromatous degeneration of the bloodvessels, which, with fatty change iu the walls of the cysts, lead to hemorrhage into their interior, etc.
Page 8 - We dayly dye entomb'd in sleep and night, But in the morning we renue our light; Hence spring my joyes and comfortes evermore I cannot feele but what Christ felt before. Wee now believe, and heare, and talk by guess, Then I shall see, and what I see possess; And when I wake wrapt in Eternal light, Of God and Christ, I know no more of night; Crown'd with eternal glories ever blest, Oh ! happy rest that brings me all the rest. Bodies...
Page 71 - This causes me to reject the theory held by Bretonneau and Barnes. (2.) That obstinate vomiting is absent in the majority of cases where there is a rigid state of the os, and where one would almost expect it invariably to be present, if the cause were that assigned by Dr. Barnes. (3.) That obstinate vomiting is often absent in flexions and distortions of the uterus, and often present where there are no flexions or distortions. This would not be likely if Dr. Hewitt's theory were true. (4.) Obstinate...
Page 9 - Queries relating to the Practice of Physick, with remarks upon some of them, modestly proposed to the serious consideration of Mankind, in order to their information how tlieir lives and healths (which are so necessary and therefore ought to be dear to them) may be better preserved.
Page 100 - ... are liable to a variety of accidents, such as rupture, either from injury or spontaneously, and twisting of the pedicle, to morbid processes, such as inflammation, atheromatous degeneration of the bloodvessels, which, with fatty change in the walls of the cysts, leads to haemorrhages into their interior, etc. 4. The existence of adhesions, of degenerative changes in, and rupture, etc., of the tumor, greatly interferes with the success of the operation. 5. On the contrary, the earlier and simpler...
Page 99 - ... the best results. It is possible to operate too early as well as too late — to place a patient's life in peril by operation before it is endangered by the disease ; just as it is possible, on the other hand, to delay operation until the powers of life are so exhausted that recovery after a severe operation is impossible.
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